Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 2 | His legs were trembling so that his hands would n't keep still . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 4 | We were so broke when we were living there that I 'd buy a bar of Kit Kat in the morning , have two fingers of it for breakfast and the other two for dinner in the evening . |
| 5 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 6 | If I were saying here that I do n't approve , then obviously it would be of no value , it would just be generation gap inanity , but it 's not that , and approval does n't come into the equation . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 8 | We were saying today that the was saying today that |
| 9 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 10 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 11 | " For God 's sake , Maureen , you were yelling yesterday that you could n't be bothered with it . |
| 12 | It should be noted that this is not an outright refutation of Young and Willmott 's position as outlined at the beginning of this section , for they were arguing only that there is a tendency towards a less-gender-segregated division of labour . |
| 13 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |
| 14 | Her maids were unfolding her cloak , and the page who held her boots was kneeling so that she could put her feet into them . |
| 15 | Find Sophie again , because something was happening there that has n't happened to me in a hell of a long time . |
| 16 | Her head was swimming so that the gleaming brasses suspended from black overhead beams seemed double-edged , but she was damned , she told herself , if she was going to cave in under Fen 's critical gaze . |
| 17 | Who did I think I was imagining glibly that I could bring up a child all by myself ? |
| 18 | ‘ I mean — ’ Biff 's tongue was loosening now that he felt the pleasant glow of heat at the back of his skull . |
| 19 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 21 | Aaron I think was saying yesterday that it would be a good idea to get at least one tape of some erm stoned people . |
| 22 | Yes , what concerns me a bit about surrogacy is someone was saying earlier that people will pay for what they want , but what if what comes is n't what they want ? |
| 23 | Yes , well Eyre there stands as a sort of a paradigmatic modern philosopher , and when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Eyre would go along with that . |
| 24 | And when I was saying earlier that it was just a logical construction to help you to talk about particular things , and I think Ayer would go along with that . |
| 25 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 26 | It did n't occur to him until he was travelling home that in learning the truth he had also acquired the means of getting his revenge . |
| 27 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 28 | She raised her eyes , saw his glance rake over her face , and was certain he was discounting entirely that her blush could have anything to do with the fact that , after being nearly naked in his arms , she was feeling a trifle uncomfortable at seeing him again . |
| 29 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 30 | But th i i i I was reading somewhere that they 're bringing it back in again . |